I wanna thank you Emily and the Brianscoop team! Brainscoop helped me realize that I love museums and that I want to have a career in them. Since I started watching your channel last year I've managed to work through my college at two different fantastic museums, one of which is a natural history museum! Museums are so amazing, I learn something new every day! I am so excited for my future in this amazing field!! Thanks for inspiring me and for everything you do!
My small tarantula collection has helped many people to not only be less scared, but also educated them on many things they didnt know about arachnids, ie different silk for different jobs, the silk is liquid in their sack, they dont liquify the whole meal, the outside is discarded like an empty juice box, and many other interesting facts. That makes me happy.
Whew! This is a welcome video from Emily! Just this week I started wondering if RU-vid was hiding The Brain Scoop from my feed or if it had just been a while since the last posting. So I'm glad to see a new video and look forward to the promised stuff coming up.
well Emily mentioned that she liked to hear cool stuff we learn about animals so here's one- I work with California condors and read somewhere that birds don't fart because of a lack of the proper gastrointestinal bacteria. So I asked my boss if condors farted and he wasn't sure, so I asked one of the lead vets at the San Diego zoo and he wasn't sure either. So i asked the lead condor keeper at the LA zoo and he said that they have silent but deadly farts that will clear a room. It's not exactly a true study but I will continue to gather anecdotal evidence because this is a very important question that needs to be answered. SCIENCE
I’m a relatively new fan but I LOVE this channel!! I’m a teenager and beginner taxidermist and your videos are funny, informative and attention-holding. I love you and the work you do, please keep it up !!!♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
I've seen videos on RU-vid of birds doing super-derpy looking courtship dances, and it always makes me think that dinosaurs must have done the same thing. I want to see a CGI video of two T Rexes or deinonychuses doing an (of course theoretical) derpy mating dance with one another like hooded grebes do or something. I know it sounds weird, but we always see dinosaurs in these bad-ass poses where they're ripping one another apart, and we forget that they probably did dorky stuff when they were trying to get laid, like every other animal on Earth. Of course, the CGI pooping is pretty awesome, too. AND YOU STILL NEED TO VISIT THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE!
I am so glad my son stumbled upon your wolf dissection video years ago, he was 4 and fell in love with watching you and now I have too! One day we will come to Chicago (and maybe try and get an autograph!).
It's alive!!! Great to find a new Brainscoop video in my inbox. Now for my question, when can we expect a return to regular video uploads? Really miss the channel.
Those are such good questions! I remember how much you inspired me at the beggining of my bachelor and how much I wanted to work as a researcher in a museum. Now I finished and I am in a different career pathway, but working towards conservation anyway. I love how eager to learn you are and I love your videos so much!
All milk glands are a highly modified form of sweat gland! Platypuses (and, if I recall correctly, other monotremes,) have more basal distributions of these milk glands - instead of having highly productive and concentrated milk glands that output through nipples, they have these patches of bald skin that secrete milk called milk patches! Like sweat, but more delicious to platypus puggles. (Yes, their babies are called puggles!) Biology is really dang neat sometimes.
Was excited to see this video in my subscription box! Been watching since the beginning and it's so cool to see how the brain scoop/your career has changed and grown over time. Hope you're doing well! Thanks for all the great videos over the years. :)
I just remembered watching the first episode ever, I think when John Green tweeted about it, and subscribing right away, and now the show has almost 500,000 subscribers... That makes me emotional. It couldn't have happened to a cooler show or a nicer host.
Excellent Work Emily !!! Nice to see you and am really glad to hear that you have more videos coming soon. You and your crew do outstanding work and need to be encouraged to keep doing what you do so well.
yeeessss! A new brain scoop video! I really like everything you guys create with a passion. Are you by any chance thinking of doing new podcast episodes too? I am looking forward to your new videos, keep up the good work! Best wishes from Holland
Intrigued OG Brain Scoop fan here! And I can't believe I missed the Sue poop when I was at the new Sue exhibit! Clearly another visit is in order ASAP!
This channel helped me rediscover my love for science and discover for the first time my interest in specimen prep. Who knew you could do this stuff for a living! My career path has completely changed thanks to a RU-vid show about the BTS of natural history museums :) Question: How can I, a high school student, start early with specimen prep? What do I need to study?
Knowing we live in the same city brings me so much joy. Fun fact: you spoke to a class one of my friends was in a couple years ago and I was so jealous.
This channel has been a godsend!! I absolutely love earth science and evolutionary biology and plan to major in it when I start college this fall. Emily, I absolutely enjoy your videos❤❤❤ and I completely relate to what you said at 8:29 to 8:54!
So wished I had known about this earlier. My question is: in order to determine an accurate weight of an extinct animal can we use fossilized trackways and figure out the water saturation of the soil at the time the track was made, then use computer or physical models to gauge how much force was used then calculate that force into weight? That way animals like Sue won’t have their weight estimated between 5,000 and 32,000 lbs.
I'm so excited for new videos! So far, I've loved every single one I've seen and I think I've seen them all. One non-museum-related question: Where do you get your awesome shirts from?
Man, I want a Moldarama video. Those machines hold a place in my heart... and on my arm... moldarama dinosaur tattoos are highly underrated. But seriously. A video on the moldaramas!
OG fan... OH SNAP!! you left me all out on a cliff!!! My house seriously misses you when you’re gone too long from RU-vid. Where else can we find you?? #emilyeveryday
Okay, so the content was great, and I know this is not the point of the video, but wow Emily, those ear chains are so rad. I could hardly take my eyes off them.
Super jazzed. What I saw on Twitter is even more jazzifying. A question about the Sue animation though, why don't they have feathers? I was under the impression that T-rexes have some feathers, albeit perhaps minimal.
It's likely T. rexes had more floofy feathers when they were young in order to stay warm/regulate body temperature- but when they get THAT big as adults it's thought feathers would be impractical for such a purpose. So, our researchers decided to forgo the feathers on the model.
I appreciate your channel. It's great for encouraging my kids in science. Any chance of doing a video on process of skinning for pelt/taxidermy then process of preparing speciman for skeletal articulation? Assuming a lot of us don't have amazing flesh eating beetles. ;). Thanks!!
There was a 19th Century English naturalist who had an extensive collection of fossils. He was also a friend and frequent visitor to the London Museum. He had promised he would leave his collection to the museum when he died. Well, he did eventually pass away and the museum received his collection. They were shocked to discover that 90% of the items in his collection already had labels "Property of the London Museum." Nearly all of his collection was composed of items he'd stolen from the museum! I wonder how the inheritance tax would work on something like that. If I steal something then leave it to its rightful owner when I die, does the state get to collect tax on it?
If you mess up a little at prepping the odds are that the person who can fire you is not as good at prepping as you are and won't know the difference. Besides, it's something you get better at each time you do it, so they won't give you a one-of-a-kind specimen as the first one you work on. They'll keep that one frozen until you're more than good enough to handle it. If you're better at it than the rest of the staff they won't even notice.
We're not going back to the spirit collection are we? I love all the dead things in jars! So much so that I hope to tour the London Natural History Museum's collection on my birthday 😁 I'm super excited for everything coming up on the channel, whatever it is!
The spirit collection (aka the fluid collection) at the UMZM has been moved to another university...! (which is a good thing!) And there are MORE exciting updates on that front coming. :D
When speaking as a guest, for say, the You and Me This Morning video among other examples of talking as a guest, how were you treated? Were there any things that stood out to you?
Given your place in one of the premier science collections in the world, have you ever thought about running a series on this channel that looks at the process of natural history research? I am a PhD student and about a year and a half ago I visited the Field Museum to collect data for a paper. It was the third of five collections I visited. Now as I get ready to publish that work, it occurs to me that it could have been really cool to document my thoughts on the project when I visited the museum - What my hypotheses were, what my methods were (and what they looked like in practice), why I had chosen them, what my preliminary results showed, and what expectations and uncertainties I had for the rest of my data collection and analysis. Then following up a year and a half later with the actual paper, what I found, what my conclusions were, etc. (using my own experience as an example, of course. Thousands of scientists visit the museum every year and you could do the same with any of them. I imagine most would be willing as long as you could guarantee not publishing the footage until they publish.) You mentioned once that you couldn't compete for 'science news' with channels like SciShow, but if you combined news about research that was done at the Field Museum with almost a mini-documentary look at the process that produced that research, that could be something really interesting and as far as I know, unique.
GOING BACK TO VISIT THE O. G. PEEPS!!!! CAN NOT WAIT!!! At least I hope that's what it means!! Ooo I hope there's a Hank Green involved too!!! "A new battle begins for these long time friends and rivals!"
